Artwork Title: View from Raamvliet

View from Raamvliet, 1936

Coen Van Oven

There is a strong contrast between outside and inside: light and dark. Through the patio doors you see the terrace, the garden and the meadows, bordered by a row of trees. Inside there is a child (Lies van Oven) at a table on the left side. The most important part of the view, the meadows, takes up little space, but is very clearly painted in miniature: the ditches, the reeds, the fences, the cattle. This was an assignment from Coen van Oven's brother Jules: the view from the house on the outskirts of Leiden, where he lived with his family. He wanted to have this recorded before the meadows would be cultivated. One sees a section of the room in which a child, the youngest daughter of the house Lies, is doing homework. The story about the poppies in the garden is that Coen, according to his principle of painting exactly what he saw, every morning he painted out the flowers that had dropped in the night and in the course of the day painted the newly emerging flowers. Behind the hedge the meadows stretch out, bordered by a row of trees. [http://stichtingcoenvanoven.nl/werken/het-uitzicht-van-raamvliet-1936/]
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